A fire at a wedding hall in northern Iraq killed at least 100 people and injured 150 others, authorities said Wednesday. The fire happened in Iraq's Nineveh province in its Hamdaniya area, they said. That's a predominantly Christian area just outside of the northern city of Mosul, some 335 kilometres northwest of the capital, Baghdad.

Television footage showed charred debris inside of the wedding hall as an man shouted at firefighters. Health Ministry spokesman Saif al-Badr gave the casualty figure via the state-run Iraqi News Agency. 'All efforts are being made to provide relief to those affected by the unfortunate accident,' al-Badr said.